Truck driver pulls away from an inspection and is promptly struck by a train.

There are many different ways that distracted driving can kill you or other people. This is but one of them. I don't think we need to make trains go any slower just to try to protect people who are already Darwin Award nominees.

Yes there are many ways that it can, removing one of them that is preventable by having something better than some not very bright flashing lights and a bell no one would possibly hear inside of a car should be avoided because (?) you are an awful human being that likes to watch people die? Ok. Good reason buddy.

In any case, distracted doesn't have to be something like the person is on their cellphone, texting someone. They can have their eyes on the road and still be distracted. Say you just got bad news, someone you love died like your wife, all you can think about is that. That person is now distracted, they aren't going to be as attentive as they would have been if they were in a good mood. So yah if you think distracted means deliberately being distracted such as using your phone then no that's not what i meant. You can be distracted and not know you are distracted, even if your eyes are on the road.

I'm not going to feel even slightly bad if you are paying so little attention you don't see activated railroad crossing signals and you get hit by a train.

Those lights aren't very easy to see, especially on a bright sunny day, especially if the sun is at the right angle. I don't know how many times I've almost been and have been hit (once) by people running a red light. The lights line up perfectly with the rising sun so that the sun shines on them, it makes it really difficult to see what the actual color the light is on. Who knew the sun is stronger and bright than some old bulb the lights use.

try to protect people who are already Darwin Award nominees

That's true, for everyone driving a gasoline powered car. I mean they are literally making the only place they are capable of living inhabitable by driving the car. Who cares about safety, the people downvoting my post don't, let as many of them die as possible. Maybe the planet can be left in some semi-habitable state if enough of them are gone.

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